Rejected

Chapter 7

As we sat around the table I could see how anxious and nervous they all looked, but I was surprised to see so much love in the room. First there were Noah’s parents, Ginny and Harry, every couple of minutes they would sneak a look at the other, and smile, deeply content. Then there was Emma and Jace, Ashley and Nate, and Shay and Danny, the couples were sitting next to each other at the table for 20, it seemed the house held a lot of dinner parties. Each of the young couples were either whispering, or playing with each other’s hair or simply holding hands, they’re love was so real and then, it made me ache. After then I saw Noah and Charlotte, when she saw me looking their way she turned and kissed Noah; I burned with anger, which hardly made sense once I thought about it, she was his girlfriend, he loved her, and I was the unnecessary, unplanned mate who got in their way. I was sitting next to Zoe who shouted, ‘oh please get a room.’ Noah and Charlotte finally split apart, only for charlotte to start fussing over Noah.

Zoe turned to me and whispered, ‘seriously, I can’t wait to find my mate, then I can kiss right in front of them, honestly they have no respect for those with no mates.’ She smiled and I could see she was joking, but there was sadness and longing in her eyes.

Finally, dinner arrived, and the love fest stopped, to be honest no matter how sweet it was it was giving me a headache.

Dinner went quite fast as everyone had hardly any conversations, and be the looks I was getting from Charlotte; let’s just say if looks could kill, I would have been murdered times a million. After we had all had desert we all moved to the living room, as Harry and Ginny decided they would clear up as ‘the kids relax.’ We all sat down on the sofa’s, an uncomfortable silence spread out, and Shay, bless her, broke it with ‘so, what movie shall we watch? We have Transformers-Dark of the Moon, or A Walk to Remember.’

An argument then blew over, the boys going for transformers and the girls choosing the romantic and the most amazing A Walk to Remember. The girls won, and we settled back to watch the film. The first half of the film was really good, it was getting really interesting, until the boys had enough and went to the other room to play snooker and Charlotte decided it was time to confront me.

‘So, Macey, do you really think Noah will choose you over me? her eyes burned with rage.

‘Charlotte, I really don’t know, I'm sorry for what happened but it can’t be changed, if Noah chooses me then I'm…’

‘Oh please, don’t think you even have a slight chance, Noah loves me, and if you naïve enough to stick around until he has to Reject you then more fool you.’

Ashley spoke before I could, ‘how do you even know Noah’s gonna choose you Charlotte, I'm sure I heard him saying you were getting boring.’ Her eyes challenged Charlotte.

‘shut the heck up Ashley, you have no idea what you are talking about, and Macey if I were you, I  would keep as far away from Noah as possible. Because if you don’t, well when I’ll be finished with you, you’d have wished you weren’t ever born.’

‘Who do you think you are Charlotte, I'm not going to be bullied around by the likes of you, slag much?’ I couldn’t help it; once I was angry I couldn’t stop. What did shock me was the hard slap I got from Charlotte, at first I didn’t even know she had slapped me, if was so fast all I was left with was a fast, aching pain on my cheek. Suddenly she was on me, and I fought back.

I flinched as Noah walked into the room. ‘Charlotte, what the heck do you think your bloody doing?’ he pulled her away from me and pushed her back. He looked me over to see if there was any lasting damage.

Charlotte spoke, whilst she has given me a split lip, I had managed to give her a black eye, I was happy, at least some good came out of my boxing classes. ‘I want you to choose Noah, right here, right now. Before it gets more messed up, me or that bitch.’

The room went silent, the boys had all come back, I looked up to meet Noah’s eyes, waiting for my judgement. He looked deep into my eyes, trying to figure me out, to look into my soul. ‘I'm sorry Macey…’

He stepped towards Charlotte and walked her out of the room and took her upstairs to clean her up.

I felt my legs go from beneath me and suddenly I was on the floor. I could feel hot, powerful tears running down my cheek, hurting it where I had been slapped. I felt someone put their arm around me, and someone else whispering that it was all going to be ok.

But it wouldn’t

Everyone knew being rejected be you mate could make you lose your mind, if not your life

I couldn’t stay

I picked myself up from the floor and despite the protests ran out the back door, and into the garden, I ran a few more yards before I saw it, I could hear footsteps behind me, and voices telling me to stop. I jumped into the lake and I heard gasps as I transformed.

I swam away from the place that had taken my heart, and mutilated it.